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Area of Science:

  • Civil Engineering
  • Geospatial Science
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Pavement crack detection is crucial for infrastructure maintenance.
  • Existing methods often struggle with complex road surface data.
  • Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) offers dense 3D point cloud data for road analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel algorithm for accurate pavement crack detection from MLS data.
  • To enable quantitative analysis of crack shape parameters.
  • To improve the robustness of crack detection in varied road conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Lossless transformation of MLS data into a regular grid structure.
  • Assignment of 2D indices to laser points for topology.
  • Integration of intensity and height changes for crack candidate identification.
  • Utilizing morphology filtering, thinning algorithms, and Freeman codes for crack extraction.
  • Quantitative evaluation of crack direction, width, length, and area.

Main Results:

  • High F1 scores for crack detection: 96.55% (transverse), 87.09% (longitudinal), 81.48% (oblique).
  • Average accuracy exceeding 0.812 for crack width and 0.897 for crack length.
  • Demonstrated robustness in complex road surface conditions.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed algorithm effectively detects and quantifies pavement cracks from MLS data.
  • The method shows high accuracy and robustness, outperforming previous studies.
  • The approach is promising for detecting other on-road objects.